What kind of dish is Wenshi Tofu?

Wen Si Tofu is one of the most famous dishes in Jianghuai and other places, belonging to the Su cuisine. It has a long history, and requires excellent knife skills from the chef who makes it, and the main ingredient is tofu, so you can imagine how difficult it is to make this dish.

The reason why Wenshi tofu is so famous, began in the Qing Dynasty, and Qing. Yuyue's "tea incense room clump notes" also said: "Wenshi good for tofu soup, so far still valid method, called Wenshi tofu."

In addition to the delicious flavor, and knife work is amazing, let a person marvel. To know a piece of soft tofu, with a manual knife cut into a shredded tofu, the test is not only the knife is more patience and care, in addition to tofu is still cut on the cutting board, for some will only eat will not cut the handicapped party to cut a block of tofu into a shredded really too torturous, minutes may be thrown out of the knife is not dry, and does not look at the thickness of the cut.

Wen Si tofu is generally a piece of tofu cut into thousands of shredded tofu, even if placed in clear water visible root and root, uniform thickness.

The Emperor Qianlong also tasted this Wenshi tofu during his visit to the south of the Yangtze River, and it once became a famous court dish.

Cutting steps:

1, first with a knife dipped in water, which reduces wear and tear on the tofu block.

2, cut the tofu block into thin slices, the thinner the better.

3, then cut the thin slices into julienne strips, the whole cut as you would shred a potato.

The way to make tofu

1, will be required tofu, black fungus, flat tip, crab meat stick cut into julienne, and ready water, starch, broth and other materials.

2, tofu cut into strands and then placed in cold water, can remove the soy flavor.

3, with a bowl of 2 eggs, mix and spread into an egg cake, dry and cut into shreds.

4, ready to pour the broth into the pot to boil, put the black fungus, flat tip of the wire, and then boil again, add the tofu wire as well as add water starch (starch plus a certain proportion of water mix) and boil again.

5, and finally into the shredded crab meat stick as well as shredded egg, boil off the heat, pour into the soup bowl is ready.